I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.

When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

The most phlegmatic dispositions often contain the most inflammable spirits, as fire is struck from the hardest flints.

A sensible thanksgiving for mercies received is a mighty prayer in the Spirit of God. It prevails with Him unspeakably.

The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

My music has to do with beauty, and it's intended to, if not lift the spirits, then be a kind of a balm to the spirits.

The more mechanical becomes the weapons with which we fight, the less mechanical must be the spirit which controls them.

Purifying and sealing by the Holy Spirit of Promise constitute the culminating steps in the process of being born again.

Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it.

Deep down in the human spirit, there is a reservoir of courage. It is always available, always waiting to be discovered.

Each atom of the Holy Spirit is intelligent, and like all other matter has solidity, form, and size, and occupies space.

Anyone's life truly lived consists of work, sunshine, exercise, soap, plenty of fresh air, and a happy contented spirit.

Grace is free, but when once you take it, you are bound forever to the Giver and bound to catch the spirit of the Giver.

Spirit seeker is someone who remembers there is a power greater than themselves and who is willing to reconnect with it.

We began as restless and radical. Remember the spirit of 1997, but by the end of our time in office we had lost our way.

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

To prevent disease or to cure it, the power of Truth, of divine Spirit, must break down the dream of the material senses.

Without theory, practice is but routine born of habit. Theory alone can bring forth and develop the spirit of inventions.

She was spirit and presence, as rare and brilliant as snowflakes in sunlight, and he could not bring himself to harm her.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

Great buildings that move the spirit have always been rare. In every case they are unique, poetic, products of the heart.

But we have nothing of the Spirit except through regeneration. Everything, therefore, which we have from nature is flesh.

We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours.

True Christianity is to manifest genuinely Christ-like behavior by dependence on the working of the Spirit of God within.

It is an awful, an appalling thought, that we may be, this moment and every moment, in the presence of malignant spirits.

True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Matter begins evolving back to Spirit and, when it's reached, the whole process begins over again for the billionth time.

To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea.

The spirit of a person's life is ever shedding some power, just as a flower is steadily bestowing fragrance upon the air.

Unhappy spirits that fell with Lucifer, / Conspired against our God with Lucifer, / And are for ever damned with Lucifer.

War is not only a matter of equipment, artillery, group troops or air force; it is largely a matter of spirit, or morale.

The viewers must come to understand the sacredness of painting, so they will remove their hats as if they were in church.

I have a possessive female spirit. I was also told I have a demonic attachment. They make me sick. They make me agitated.

Perhaps not all spirits are meant for this world, but they pass through anyway and change for the better those which are.

Generally, if I can't be true to the creator's intention and spirit, I will probably shy away from working on a character.

Don't make the body do what the spirit does best, and don't put a big load on the spirit that the body could easily carry.

The spirit of house music, electronic music, in the beginning was to break the rules, to do things in many different ways.

They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn't want to be broken.

First, I thought, almost despairing, This must crush my spirit now; Yet I bore it, and am bearing- Only do not ask me how.

Without trust, there can be no genuine peace. Neither in politics, nor in the quiet individuality of the heart and spirit.

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

God commands us to be filled with the Spirit, and if we are not filled, it is because we are living beneath our privileges

There is nothing like a newborn baby to renew your spirit - and to buttress your resolve to make the world a better place.

God is building Himself in to us, making Himself part of us as the Word rules, dominates and sanctifies our spirit nature.

Only the power of the Living Christ proclaimed in demonstration of the Holy Spirit, can meet the urgent needs of humanity.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

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